Logan and Lora's life: April 2011

This is the story, its going to be long and some/most of you probably wont really care but I have to get it all down so that when Taylee asks me how the "big day" all happened I can tell her, every detail! I was scheduled to be induced March 28th, 2011 (3 days before my due date) because of my insurance ending. On March 27th (Sunday night) I got a call from the Hospital asking if I could call at 4am the next morning and plan on coming in at 5am. As I'm sure you all can guess, that got us a little more anxious! We were at my parents house celebrating my moms birthday and after we got that call we figured that we'd better head home to get some sleep! Before we left I asked my sweet husband to give me a blessing and my dad, brother, and brother-in-law stepped in to help. I wish I could remember all that was said in that blessing but all I remember was that I felt so calm. I knew that everything was going to be okay and that soon, very soon, we would finally be able to meet our little girl. After the blessing we headed home and needless to say, we did not get ANY sleep that night! Woke up and called at 4am and ended up going to the hospital around 5:30am. When we got there my blood pressure was high and there was some protein in my urine. They told me that I had preclampsia and that is was a good thing that I was there to get induced. They started me on PIT right away. The hours passed and the contractions kept coming stronger and stronger. When I got there they said I was dilated to a 3+ and 80%. A little better then the 2+ and 45% I had been the previous Thursday! Every hour passed by pretty quickly and I dilated about 1 every hour. That is until I was a 9. Then everything slowed down and the nurse wondered if our little girl was coming posterior. My Doc came in to check me and sure enough, she wasn't quite posterior but turned just enough that she wasn't coming so easily. So she had me push through a few contractions and turned the babies head so that we were good to go. And finally after almost 3 1/2 years of trying to get pregnant, 2 miscarriages, many prayers, lots of tears, 9 LONG months of pregnancy, 12 hours of labor and 90 minutes of pushing, we got to meet our sweet little girl: Taylee Kae Schenk 7lbs 9oz, 19" long and we could not be happier!

Our first family photo!

Taylee's BEAMING daddy

Sweet little Taylee

When Taylee was born she and I both had a high fever. The doc decided that we should run some labs on her to be sure that everything was okay and that we needed to bring her to the NICU right away. I was SO sad. I didn't want to leave my little girl! Her first set of labs came back and showed that everything was fine but to be sure, the doctor said we should check them again in a few hours. The second set of tests didn't come back so perfect and the doctor decided that it would be best to send Taylee down to the NICU to get some antibiotics. He suspected that she had some infection and to just be safe that this would be the best plan. Logan and I spent every minute we could in the NICU with Taylee and she was such a good girl! It was so sad to see her all hooked up to machines but I just had to remind myself that everything was okay and that we just wanted to make sure to get rid of that infection. The doctor ran labs two more times on her and pumped her full of antibiotics and she was good to go! Taylee had to spend two days in the NICU away from us but she was such a champ about it! We just love her so so much and are so grateful that everything went so well!